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The first civil service law for state government in Illinois was approved May 11, 1905 and took effect in November of that year (L. 1905, p. 113). The act established the Civil Service Commission's basic structure of three commissioners, appointed by the Governor to six-year terms, who chose one of their members to act as president and appointed a chief examiner to serve as secretary. Although the commission's jurisdiction extended initially over only non-supervisory employees of state charitable institutions, the members exercised the full range of their principal duties: to classify positions in accord with competence and salary levels; to set qualifications for employment in the positions under their control; to maintain lists of persons eligible for appointment to those positions, and to furnish those lists to agencies seeking to fill vacancies; to approve appointments and maintain records of transfers, promotions, and resignations; to investigate complaints concerning position changes, responsibilities, salaries, or tenure; to remove employees for specific offenses (e.g., inefficiency, political activity, insubordination); to establish and promulgate personnel rules and to file them with the Secretary of State and county clerks; to authorize payment of employees' salaries after determining that those wages corresponded with the terms of their appointments or promotions; and to submit annual reports to the Governor.
In 1911 the civil service system was broadened and the commission's jurisdiction extended to a much wider range of positions (L. 1911, p. 222). The members were given additional powers: to establish promotional lists for those positions, to advise state agencies concerning more effective personnel practices, and to offer dismissed employees the opportunity to defend themselves at hearings conducted by the commission. The expanded system included all positions under the Governor but did not affect employees of the General Assembly, judges and their appointees, elected officials, appointees of the Governor who required confirmation by the Senate, members of state military services, administrators and faculty of the University of Illinois and state normal schools, executive mansion employees, assistant attorneys general, loan or bank examiners, and superintendents, wardens, and chaplains of state charitable and penal institutions. Other exemptions were made over the period 1917-1941 for employees of the State Council of Defense, special police, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, insurance actuaries or examiners, veterinary surgeons in the Department of Agriculture, employees of the Illinois Farm Commission, watchmen employed by the Supreme Court, state highway and waterway construction and maintenance workers, certain regulatory staff of the Department of Mines and Minerals, and scientists employed by the state scientific surveys (L. 1917, pp. 153, 289; L. 1919, p. 291; L. 1925, p. 542; L. 1931, p. 207; L. 1941, vol. 1, pp 398, 934). In 1917 dismissed employees were granted the right to reinstatement if commission hearings proved that their terminations had been based on racial, political, or religious prejudice (L. 1917, p. 289).
In 1941 and 1943 non-academic and non-administrative staff of the University of Illinois were transferred to the control of a newly created University Classified Civil Service System and employees of downstate county departments of public welfare were placed under the jurisdiction of the Merit System Council consisting of the three state civil service commissioners (L. 1941, vol. 1, pp. 398, 493; L. 1943, vol. 2, p. 545).
In 1955 and 1957 the act of 1905 was amended substantially. The commission's administrative duties were transferred to the newly established Department of Personnel and the commission was transformed into a regulatory agency over the department in order to oversee and coordinate its duties and to hear employee appeals from department decisions (L. 1955, pp. 337, 2208, 2222; L. 1957, p. 1101). Terms of the acts of 1955, collectively entitled the Personnel Code and effective as of July 1957, retained most exemptions previously authorized and continued undisturbed separate personnel merit systems such as those for the state police and the University of Illinois. The Merit System Council, however, was abolished and its responsibilities merged with those of the Department of Personnel. A separate University Civil Service System was established for employees of Northern, Eastern, and Western Illinois Universities. And a Personnel Advisory Board of nine appointees of the Governor was created to nominate appointees to the Civil Service Commission and advise both the commission and the department on effective personnel administration.
Civil Service Commission
216.001
MINUTES OF COMMISSION MEETINGS. August 8, 1905-May 10, 1957. 97 vols. and 3.5 cu. ft. Index, 1906-1957, 13 cu. ft.
Minutes of regular and special Civil Service Commission meetings primarily concern matters such as hiring, salaries, personnel policies, position duties, disciplinary actions, costs of commission activities, and administrative decisions. A great proportion of the minutes offers detailed information about employee applications and examinations. Financial statements filed with the minutes include information concerning commission bills paid (e.g., salaries, office expenses, travel, equipment and repairs, printing, postage), monthly summaries of payroll information, and audit reports made by private accountants at the request of the Auditor of Public Accounts which include detailed information about commission activities, appropriations, and state property under its control.
Preserved with the minutes are hearing résumés, summaries of hearing decisions, and stenographic transcripts of significant hearings. For the early years of the commission a large part of such material relates to the mistreatment of patients or prisoners in state institutions. The minutes also record decisions of the commission on appealed cases and recommendations from classification appeals boards. Generally attached to the minutes are Civil Service Commission reports, meeting agenda, resolutions, memoranda, and abstracts of significant correspondence received by the commission along with the actions taken as a result.
Found throughout the minutes are staff working papers (e.g., announcements of scheduled examinations, notices to applicants concerning their status, notices to agencies that eligibility lists were about to expire) and copies of regular and special reports to the Governor. These reports contain descriptions of major court cases to which the commission was a party, discussions of personnel policies and salary schedules, and explanations of circumstances requiring temporary appointments. Also found with the minutes are opinions of the Attorney General concerning changes in civil service rules and orders for reinstatements of discharged employees; requisitions from state agencies for additional position openings; computer printouts of the numbers of transfers, promotions, demotions, and appointments for each state agency; and copies of relevant documents issued by other state agencies concerning the St. Charles School for Boys, Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane, the Soldiers' Widows' Home, and the State Reformatory at Pontiac.
216.002
TRANSCRIPTS OF COMMISSION HEARINGS. 1908-1917. 3 cu. ft. Partial index.
Record consists of Civil Service Commission hearing transcripts and evidence collected during investigations of charges filed against state employees. Transcripts contain verbatim copies of testimony given at commission hearings and are occasionally indexed by witnesses' names. Material used as evidence includes affidavits of Civil Service Commission inspectors, notarized statements of charges brought by agency heads against state workers, statements taken from witnesses, and exhibits submitted. Major investigations focused on state payrolls and state agencies with penal, health, welfare, or recreational responsibilities. Civil Service Commission investigators' reports present detailed descriptions of objectionable practices or conditions in state agencies or in private firms regulated by the state and often include summaries of interviews with owners and workers in the private facilities. Often included are items of supporting evidence such as audits of state agencies by private certified accountants and transcripts of trials that involved state employees.
Other material in this series includes index cards bearing employees' names, positions, and addresses; verbatim copies of testimonies given before legislative committees investigating state government and institutions; petitions, often from discharged employees, to the Civil Service Commission or to circuit courts; vouchers of state employees' expense accounts; photographs;
newsclippings; maps of Illinois counties outlining game and fish areas; railroad schedules listing train destinations, depots, names of shippers and of game and fish wardens who inspected shipments, and names of express agents who received them; copies of telegrams ordinarily concerning witnesses' appearances at hearings; efficiency reports of state workers signed by efficiency recorders and department heads and containing employees' names, position titles, and graded deportment; employees' medical records; rules and regulations of state agencies; reports from the Civil Service Commission to the Attorney General or to the Governor; statements of findings or decisions of the commission upon completion of investigations or hearings; and commission notifications of suspensions, discharges, or reinstatements.
216.003
CORRESPONDENCE WITH CODE DEPARTMENTS. 1906-1962. 110 cu. ft. No index.
Correspondence, primarily with code departments or their predecessor agencies, personnel consultants, and private citizens chiefly concerns major commission responsibilities such as examinations, appointments, establishment of position titles and duties, verification of salaries, employee training, personnel policies and regulations, and administrative actions. Material relating to examinations includes position test announcements, recruiting instructions, application forms, job descriptions, and schedules of salaries offered. Records concerning appointments include interview results; lists of names of eligible applicants; notices of promotions, demotions, or resignations; and material concerning temporary or exempt assignments. Materials on the establishment of position duties, titles, and salaries include requests for job audits and notifications of changes made in pursuance of them; outlines of particular qualifications for given positions; and comparisons of Illinois state government positions with similar ones in other states or in the federal civil service system.
Salary verification matters are reflected in the correspondence by notices to state agencies that they were paying employees salaries above or below authorized wage scales, by notices to the Department of Finance to adjust payroll budgets to conform with those scales, and by financial data sheets and salary vouchers. Establishment of personnel policies and rules and regulations is discussed extensively in the correspondence as are legal implications that might follow from them. Administrative actions primarily encompass statements of charges filed against employees and the commission's response to them and commission instructions to departments concerning civil service rules with departmental objections to them.
216.004
CORRESPONDENCE WITH ELECTIVE DEPARTMENTS. 1906-1962. 7 cu. ft. No index.
Included in this correspondence are exchanges between the Civil Service Commission and the offices of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Auditor of Public Accounts, Superintendent of Public Instruction, clerk of the Supreme Court, and State Treasurer. The Governor's file chiefly is concerned with requests for funds; employment applications; complaints about civil service tests or procedures, often from members of unions or veterans' associations; and transcripts of significant hearings, notably concerning terminations of employees charged with negligence that resulted in deaths or injuries to patients in state institutions, including explanations of the cases by Civil Service Commission administrators. Budgets and Civil Service Commission regulations dominate as topics in the Lieutenant Governor's file. The Secretary of State's file relates chiefly to wages, hiring, and requests for extension of commission jurisdiction over librarians and archivists. The Attorney General's file consists of commission requests for legal action, such as to issue injunctions against state agencies that were authorizing salaries for uncertified employees, or to rule on specific personnel questions; signed opinions on personnel matters; and circuit court administrative reviews of decisions reached by commission hearings. The Auditor of Public Accounts' file contains an incomplete collection of monthly payroll statements. Those dating from the 1950s reveal only earning totals and the number of employees in elective and code departments, but those for earlier years reveal the names of employees in each department, their positions, and whether they transferred, took leaves-of-absence, or had their temporary permits renewed. The Superintendent of Public Instruction's file primarily concerns wages, position classification, and civil service testing. The clerk of the Supreme Court's file includes employment eligibility certificates; telegrams from applicants who accepted jobs; and copies of commission letters that discussed exemptions, training, and examinations. The State Treasurer's file includes the same sort of correspondence as contained in the clerk of the Supreme Court's file as well as financial statements of commission funds in a credit account of the First National Bank of Springfield.
216.005
CORRESPONDENCE WITH NON-DEPARTMENTAL COMMISSIONS AND BOARDS. 1906-1962. 25 cu. ft. No index.
State commissions and boards that this series concerns are governmental bodies separate from code departments or their predecessor agencies before 1917. Typical titles for these non-departmental state units include: American Negro Emancipation, Cities and Villages, Displaced Persons, Inter-Racial, Lake Michigan Fish Protective, Medical Center, Protection of the American Heritage, State Scholarship, Toll Highway, and Waukegan Port District Commissions. Also filed with this series is correspondence of the Merit System Council, a major adjunct of the Civil Service Commission and comprised of its members, which supervised personnel activities for downstate county departments of public welfare. Merit Council records include rules and regulations and Attorney General opinions concerning council functions.
Much of the remaining correspondence in the series is between the Civil Service Commission and the Department of Personnel. Topics generally center on matters such as holidays, salaries, and job classifications of commission employees. Throughout the series are civil service memoranda on a variety of subjects including volunteer consultants, World War II certified employees, fair employment practices, employees' duties, assignments of Civil Service Commission examiners and their attendance at commission hearings, recruiting visits, civil service laws and procedures in municipal governments or in other states, political or patronage problems, university research into civil service systems, modern personnel management techniques, grant proposals, methods of advertising examinations, inventories of state property, and contributions to charities.
216.006
CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE COMMISSION ON STATE GOVERNMENT. 1966-1968. 0.25 cu. ft. No index.
Correspondence between the executive secretary of the Civil Service Commission and the chairman of the Commission on State Government mainly concerns civil service control over specified state positions. File also includes reports, studies, and memoranda concerning the improvement of civil service legislation, especially in regard to personnel services, political activity, and employee dismissals.
216.007
CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL. 1953-1973. 9 cu. ft. No index.
This series mainly concerns the adjustment of responsibilities between the Civil Service Commission and the Department of Personnel that arose after the conversion of the commission from a personnel agency to a regulatory body for that department. As a regulatory body the commission approved personnel system rules, oversaw compliance with them, helped the department develop policies, and adjudicated appeals. The correspondence deals with such matters as employee status, exemptions and politics, training, salary scales, position classifications, and the desired qualifications of a director of the Department of Personnel. Lists of names and positions of state employees and applicants appear throughout the series. Supporting documents filed with the correspondence include monthly reports of the personnel director to the commission, agenda of meetings between administrators of the two agencies, salary surveys, policy agreements between the commission and state agencies, decisions of the Court of Claims in employee suits against the state, union contracts, management consultant brochures, and audit reports of the department made by certified public accounting firms together with objections by department staff chiefs. Also filed in the series are commission letters to the Governor on such topics as a forty-hour week for prison guards; pending legislation, particularly for overtime pay; and unpaid volunteers on personnel grievance panels. Frequently discussed in the correspondence are explanations of proposed amendments to the Personnel Code, reasons for agency exemptions from commission control, availability of federal grants, and the effect of a presidential order freezing salaries.
Found throughout the correspondence are copies of legislative acts; career and employment pamphlets; press releases, particularly from the League of Women Voters concerning attempts to increase the number of state employees subject to civil service rules; and briefs of cases before Illinois courts in suits to which the department was a party. Commission staff working papers preserved in the correspondence file include monthly reports on the status of personnel legislation before the General Assembly; yearly budget requests with justifications of program priorities; training handouts; drafts about new personnel techniques; reports on accomplishments or activities; computer printouts of job titles and salaries or of payroll rosters; and graphs displaying figures for the total number of separations from state employment with causes (e.g., marriage, retirement, death, family responsibilities), promotions, demotions, suspensions, and appointments broken down by type (e.g., emergency, temporary, provisional subject-to-examination, certified, exempt from Civil Service Commission control).
216.008
CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE PERSONNEL ADVISORY BOARD. 1962-1968. 0.25 cu. ft. No index.
Correspondence between the Civil Service Commission and the Personnel Advisory Board primarily concerns budget reductions, recruiting programs, merit provisions for a proposed constitutional convention, and the effectiveness of the Personnel Code. Arranged with the correspondence are minutes of Personnel Advisory Board meetings and special reports drawn up by the board, ordinarily as the result of public controversies about state personnel practices or as recommendations to the Governor for signing or vetoing personnel bills. Other material in the series includes statements from state agencies concerning personnel policies (e.g., reorganization plans resulting in employee layoffs).
216.009
CORRESPONDENCE AND SUBJECT FILES. 1905-1962. 12.5 cu. ft. No index.
Topics dealt with in this file include annual leave policies, records management, lobbies that promoted effective civil service laws and administration, testing validity (e.g., use of essay questions, preservation of examination confidentiality, uniform scoring, oral examinations), un-American activities, and conscientious objectors (mostly exchanges with the American Friends Service Committee which was investigating civil service placement and payment of conscientious objectors who cared for state mental patients in compliance with the federal Universal Training and Service Act of 1951). Organizations appearing in the series are either federal agencies or private groups, such as veterans' and professional associations, which usually were seeking to ascertain whether civil service practices were applied fairly to members of their organizations.
Throughout the series appear working papers collected or compiled for special projects; time-and-motion studies of commission employees; incomplete schedules of hearings; names of discharged state employees who had received hearings, together with notations as to whether patronage was involved and whether the proceedings resulted in confirmation of dismissals or in reinstatements; and graphs that display personnel changes (i.e., certifications, resignations, discharges, deaths) during the early 1920s in state welfare institutions. Together with these working papers are copies of The Joliet Prison Post; newsletters of the American Society for Public Administration; publications of the U.S. Bureau of the Census, which frequently list comparative costs of state employment; press releases of the NAACP, generally on discriminatory hiring; and corporate studies. Also filed in this series is a 261-page transcript, "Report of an Investigation of the St. Charles School for Boys, 1914."
216.010
CORRESPONDENCE AND GRIEVANCE FILE. 1957-1970. 2 cu. ft. No index.
Incoming letters are chiefly from suspended, demoted, or discharged state employees. Others are from private citizens, federal lawmakers, and the media concerning complaints about the civil service system. Civil Service Commission replies generally recommend that state employees go through their established agency grievance procedures. Other typical letters complain of racial discrimination, confiscation of personal property by the state, and supervisors' refusals to let employees take accumulated vacation days. Related material in the series includes commission reviews of hearings or decisions; writs of mandamus filed against the director of the Department of Personnel by discharged employees; sworn statements by fellow employees about the conduct of employees under review; decisions of State Industrial Commission arbitrators; commission staff drafts on promotion methods; legal briefs and court decisions of appealed cases; and a study entitled, "Staff Report Concerning the Reorganization in the Department of Registration and Education," which contains detailed appendixes such as organizational charts and a historical review of the growth of the department. Included in the correspondence are exchanges with members of the House of Representatives concerning budget bills, with applicants who took civil service tests, and with former employees appealing their cases or asking for their personnel files.
216.011
COUNTY AFFIDAVITS. March 23, 1951-December 31, 1952; 1954-1956. 0.5 cu. ft. No index.
Series consists of Civil Service Commission affidavits submitted by county clerks to certify that they had posted examination announcements. Also included are notarized statements from county clerks that they had indexed, recorded, and preserved Civil Service Commission revised rules. Included in the series are lists of counties that did not return the commission forms. The affidavits and statements signed by the county clerks contain the dates that the examination announcements were posted, test series numbers, position titles, and closing dates for applications.
216.012
EXAMINATION FORMS. 1918-1922. 1 cu. ft. No index.
This series consists of examination forms used by applicants for positions under the jurisdiction of the Civil Service Commission including jobs at the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana and in public schools. Each form gives the valid dates of the examination and designates the position title. Scattered among the forms are job announcements describing the duties of open positions, qualifications required, procedures necessary for application, closing dates, and salary ranges. The forms do not include answers but were used by applicants for study only.
216.013
ELIGIBILITY LISTS AND EXAMINATION REPORTS. 1906-1971; 1975-1979. 147 vols. and 0.25 cu. ft. No index.
This series contains examination reports and eligibility lists of applicants for specific positions within the jurisdiction of the commission. Supporting documents include memoranda with the names of Civil Service Commission employees who prepared or supervised particular examinations, registers of people certified eligible for state jobs and subsequently appointed, and rosters of those who either failed tests or did not complete them. Throughout the series are completed commission forms that record examinations administered and that disclose the results. The forms also reveal evaluative weights allotted for each section of the tests and for education, experience, performance, or interview report. All the forms note dates positions were approved and announced, due dates applications had to be filed, and dates tests were given. These forms frequently were signed by the chief of the Examining Division and by the commission president.
216.014
SALARY STANDARDIZATION AND POSITION CLASSIFICATION STUDIES. Ca. 1938-1969. 1 vol. and 68 cu. ft. No index.
This series consists chiefly of organizational charts, position classification questionnaires, and employee allocation requests and lists for agencies whose employees fell under Civil Service Commission jurisdiction. The organizational charts were prepared from position classification questionnaires and usually encompass entire departments, displaying organizational lines of control down to the unit level and listing position titles, code numbers, monthly salaries for each position, number of employees under civil service, and number of vacant or occupied positions. Other charts diagram positions in the Illinois judicial system and indicate salaries, expenses, and pensions from Supreme Court judges down to police magistrates with indications of the order of appeals. Included also are charts for the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana that detail all positions in the university personnel system. Special charts in the series include comparative personnel policies and monthly wages paid state maintenance workers by other state governments. Early organizational charts display intergovernmental ties of state agencies with the federal government and total amounts of federal funds sent to the State of Illinois.
Position classification questionnaires, dated and signed by employees and supervisors, show employee's name, job titles (i.e., old, new, working, payroll), department, division or institution, unit, and work address and days and hours normally worked per week. The questionnaires also disclose whether the position is exempt, certified, temporary, or full- or part-time. The chief feature of these questionnaires is a description of the daily routine of the job and includes extra assignments as well as the percentage of time spent on each duty and an account of the unit work flow. When applicable the forms note decisions made by the employee, equipment operated, and the number of employees supervised. Also included are statements by the supervisor verifying the employee's description and explaining whether the work was essential and the exact qualifications needed for the position.
Some questionnaires include the employee's salary or other benefits received (i.e., meals, housing, uniforms, automobiles); supervisor's evaluation of the employee's performance; mental and physical characteristics required for the position; and its hazards, including frequency of exposure, severity of possible injuries or illness, and the general work surroundings.
Allocation request forms and employee lists contain much of the same information as the questionnaires and in addition state why positions were vacant and include the necessary salaries to fill them. Also in the series are supporting documents for the position classification studies; résumés submitted by employees; authorizations from the Civil Service Commission president to agency administrators, generally to direct changes of position titles on payrolls or on classification records; and letters from state employees to the commission frequently to complain about reclassifications of positions, titles, and salaries. A small part of the series consists of agency requests to hire more employees or to increase salaries, including copies of commission approvals or disapprovals. Also among those requests are commission memoranda relaying the Governor's authorizations for pay increases or position reinstatements in special cases and lists of union members compiled by state agencies.
216.015
PERSONNEL CODE PLANS. 1954-1956. 0.25 cu. ft. No index.
This series contains background papers that support revisions of position classification procedures and analyze the effects of establishing new position titles, Civil Service Commission staff notes on selecting a personnel director, and commission correspondence with state employees, private citizens, and out-of-state civil service administrators on proper titles, duties, and salaries for specific state jobs. Other documents in the series were brought together during the preparation of personnel legislation. They include payroll summaries, selected statistics about employees who worked in state mental and penal institutions, drafts of personnel codes, personnel bills introduced in the House of Representatives, and legislative fact sheets about those bills. Publications collected to support legislative projects include copies of or reprints from bulletins, newsletters, and journals of the commission and department.
216.016
PAY PLANS. 1960-1967. 1 cu. ft. No index.
This series consists of commission staff working papers to schedule position levels, salaries, and step increases. Included are copies of the resulting pay plans submitted to the Governor. Other material in the series relates to compensation policies, salaries authorized by other civil service systems (in-state and out-of-state), submission of pay plans to the Secretary of State, and decisions agreed upon by the commission and the Department of Personnel to adjust salaries so that state compensation would compare with wages paid by private industry. Supporting documents in the series include agency bulletins on wages, schedules of pay rates, alphabetical indexes of position titles, and press releases from the Information Service of the Department of Personnel which usually announce the Governor's approval of salary increases.
216.017
PLANS FOR CHANGES IN PERSONNEL RULES. 1957-1970. 0.25 cu. ft. No index.
This series contains working papers on proposed rule changes together with comments by the chairman and staff of the commission, state agency administrators, the director of personnel, and representatives from private businesses. Additionally included are notices of public hearings for amending personnel rules; requests from department heads and from the Governor to extend the jurisdiction of the commission to newly created state agency divisions; petitions from union members and private citizens, usually objecting to regulations; notices from federal officials informing state administrators about federal personnel laws applicable to state governments; and memoranda by the commission chairman about special positions exempt from Civil Service Commission control.
216.018
SCRAPBOOKS. January 1, 1908-April 25, 1913; February 1, 1933-November 6, 1947. 23 vols. Partial index.
Scrapbooks contain newsclippings relating chiefly to state, federal and Chicago civil service activities. Also found in these scrapbooks are commission press releases concerning examination announcements, application procedures, rules and regulations, activities of current or former civil service commissioners or of staff aides, personnel legislation, grand jury investigations, and suits or court decisions in cases involving the Civil Service Commission. Scattered throughout the scrapbooks are pamphlets, magazines, personnel convention program agenda, newsletters, copies of speeches delivered in the U.S. House of Representatives on civil service, texts of state civil service bills submitted to the General Assembly, and newspaper clippings printed in Slavic and Germanic languages.
216.019
EMPLOYEE SUSPENSION CARD FILES. 1941-1957. 1 cu. ft. No index.
Files show case and folder numbers; employee's name and address; attorney of record; position classification; dates suspension filed and effective; dates charges filed with the commission, charges sent to suspended employee, investigation held, decision made, and dismissal, demotion, or reinstatement effective; and the causes for these actions. Sometimes included are the date a request for a hearing was filed, hearing officer's name, and department representative's name and title.
216.020
MERIT SYSTEM COUNCIL FILES. 1941-1957. 7 vols. Partial index.
Files include council minutes, annual reports, correspondence, copies of examinations, and training and experience evaluation guidelines. Minutes concern promotions, demotions, examinations, rules and procedures, salaries, eligibility registers, and job certifications. Annual reports concern recruitment, examinations, appointments, certifications, expenditures, and rules and regulations. Correspondence concerns training, examinations, vacancies, eligibility, position openings, and rules and regulations.
216.021
COMMISSION CORRESPONDENCE FILES. 1911-1957. 9 cu. ft. No index.
Correspondence is between commission members, state and federal agencies, and state organizations. Subjects include revision of the Civil Service Act, personnel actions, examination qualifications, performance ratings, position classifications, salaries and pay plans, temporary and student employment, position openings, employee evaluations, and employee certifications.
Department of Personnel
216.022
PREVAILING WAGE RATES CONTRACTS. April 1, 1966-October 1, 1975. 12 cu. ft. No index.
Files include prevailing wage rate certifications for twenty-seven classes of union laborers employed by the state; copies of department bulletins notifying state agencies of certified wage rates; copies of collective bargaining agreements; and copies of correspondence with the Department of Labor, the Department of Personnel, and the Construction Industry Stabilization Committee. Beginning in November 1971 files also contain copies of reviews of negotiated collective bargaining agreements made by the Construction Industry Stabilization Committee to determine whether wage increases fell within wage freeze guidelines.
216.023
PUBLIC SERVICE CAREER CASE FILES. 1970-1972. 12 cu. ft. No index.
Files include enrollee training records, applications and supplementary applications, interview assessments, entry enrollee certification forms, exit interviews, United States Department of Labor applicant information records, job control books, memoranda, and publications. Applications and training records show the applicant's name, address, position for which applicant has been trained, education, training history, residency, availability and preference, medical and criminal history, employment and salary history, personal data, and number of months unemployed.
216.024
TEST MATERIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. 1957-1972; 1974-1979. 149 vols. Index.
Record of examinations administered by the Department of Personnel includes lists of titles of positions to be tested; job descriptions including duties, salary, and required training; test information including testing sites; directions for taking and administering tests; grading scales; and copies of written and oral examinations. For 1975-1978 record also contains materials from the Selective Referral System including a program description, a list of jobs in the system, evaluative studies of the program, and outgoing correspondence with applicants.
These records are available at the Illinois State Archives, Office of the Secretary of State.
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